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	William Jackson Palmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Jackson Palmer was born to a Quaker family in Leipsic, a small coastal town in Kent County, Delaware on September 17, 1836.
		In 1906, Palmer, who preferred the horse to the newly invented automobile, suffered a fall from a horse while on a ride with his daughters and a friend and was paralyzed.
		William Palmer was the land-grantor of several institutions in Colorado Springs, including the (International Typographical Union's) Union Printer's Home, the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, several churches in central Colorado Springs, and Cragmor Sanitarium, a tuberculosis sanitarium which later was re-founded in 1965 as the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Jackson_Palmer (1533 words)

	Queen Palmer
		Dorothy was born in 1880 and Marjory was born in 1881.
		In 1906 Palmer was thrown from his horse while riding in Garden of the Gods and was paralyzed from the neck down.
		In 1909 General William Jackson Palmer died at the age of 72.
	www.d11.org /qpalmer/queenp.html (449 words)

	General William Jackson Palmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		General William Jackson Palmer was a man of vision who fell in love with the magnificent Pikes Peak region and created a railroad town of culture and beauty - - Colorado Springs.
		He became one of the youngest generals in the Civil War as a member of the 15th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry (and was even falsely accused of being a spy).
		Palmer bought 9,312 acres of land for 80 cents an acre and divided it into lots to be sold to those of "good moral character".
	academy.d20.co.edu /ate/palmer.html (443 words)

	Historic Bath - Palmer-Marsh House
		William Palmer and his wife, Mary, brought a change of lifestyle to the imposing white frame house with its massive chimneys.
		William, who decided to remain, still could not bring himself to take the patriot's test oath and tried to drink away the demons of indecision that tortured him, especially after Martin fled to a ship in the Cape Fear River and William's crown appointments were stripped away.
		The General Assembly, meeting at the palace in New Bern, grown shabby from neglect, in November 1785, heard complaints by Beaufort County citizens about the inadequate inns at Bath Town and the "ruinous condition" of the courthouse.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hs/bath/palmer-marsh.htm (2843 words)

	Colorado Springs, Colorado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Colorado Springs was founded in August 1871 by General William Palmer, with the intention of creating a high quality resort community, and was soon nicknamed "Little London" because of the many English tourists who came.
		Palmer and his wife saw Colorado Springs develop into one of the most popular travel destinations in the United States.
		The town of Palmer Lake and a geographic feature called the Palmer Divide (and other more minor features) are named after him, and a bronze sculpture of Palmer on his horse is prominently displayed downtown in the center of a busy intersection.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colorado_Springs,_CO (4652 words)

	Bruce Palmer, Jr., General, United States Army
		General Palmer became Deputy Commanding General to General William C. Westmoreland in Vietnam in 1967 and Army Vice Chief of Staff, again under Westmoreland, in 1968.
		General Palmer was the Army's acting chief of staff in 1972 and retired in 1974 as commander in chief of the Army Readiness Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.
		The General's parents, Brigadier General Bruce Palmer (January 27, 1878-July 28, 1958) and Madeline Harding Palmer (November 18, 1878-September 6, 1958) are buried in Section 30, Grave 387, of Arlington National Cemetery.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /bpalmerjr.htm (883 words)

	WELCOME TO THE COLORADO SPRINGS PAGE!
		The founder General William Jackson Palmer and his associates comprising the Colorado Springs Co., would most likely be pleasantly surprised at the Springs of today, compared to the one they envisioned in 1871.
		General Palmer, being a man of strict temperance, felt it necessary to prohibit the sale or serving of alcohol within the town limits, and probably would not be happy with the popular breweries & brew pubs currently operating & providing entertainment & libations for the tourist and consumer of the 90's.
		Palmer's & his colleagues' intentions were to establish Colorado Springs as a resort in the Rocky Mountains for the genteel rich- set in a locale where the climate was friendly & the scenery some of the best one could find, while both acted as a tonic and diversion to the tourist.
	www.cospgs.com /history.html (1206 words)

	A Biography of William J. Palmer - Colonel of the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry
		Palmer distinguished himself to such a degree in his position as commander of the troop during various scouting expeditions, that Buell arranged for him to return to Pennsylvania for the purpose of raising the Troop to battalion strength.
		Following the Battle of Nashville, Palmer led the 15th in such a vigorously prosecuted pursuit of Hood's beaten army that both he and the regiment were mentioned several times prominently in General George Thomas' report of the campaign.
		Palmer's scheme for his new railroad was not to build an east and west line but a north and south one.
	www.swcivilwar.com /15PalmerBiography.html (2641 words)

	Colorado State Capitol
		James William Denver - Known as the man for whom Denver City was named, General James William Denver was Governor of the Territory of Kansas, a Federal Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and served in the California State Legislature.
		General William Palmer - Palmer is best known as a builder of railroads, but he was also a successful businessman, military man and philanthropist.
		Palmer was instrumental in bringing the Denver and the Kansas Pacific railroad lines to Denver in 1871.
	www.colorado.gov /dpa/doit/archives/cap/rotunda.htm (1735 words)

	Palmer (Oliver H.) Papers, 1862 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Palmer was the commanding officer of the 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Division (General William H. French), 2nd Corps (Major General Arius N. Couch), Right Grand Division (Major General Edwin V. Sumner) in the Army of the Potomac commanded by General Ambrose E. Burnside during the Fredericksburg Campaign.
		On December 13, Palmer's brigade in the 3rd Division was one of the first to advance against Marye's Heights in the battle of Fredericksburg.
		Palmer was discharged on March 2, 1863 and promoted to Brevet Brigadier-General on March 13, 1865.
	www.nav.cc.tx.us /library/civilwar/finding_aids/m_r/palmer.htm (523 words)

	Colorado Springs, CO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		General Palmer conceived of such a city and wrote, "Could one live in constant view of these grand mountains without being elevated by them into a lofty plane of thought and purpose?"
		Palmer was a railroad magnate prospecting for new markets when he stumbled on Colorado City, a small town now encompassed by what is today central Colorado Springs.
		Palmer's piece de resistance—currently known as Glen Eyrie Castle—is now a Christian retreat center that is still open to the public for tours and high tea.
	www.skywestmagazine.com /Features/MarApr06/coSPRINGS.htm (1423 words)

	Lytle, William Haines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		William Haines Lytle was born in Cincinnati, November 2, 1826.
		His only son, William, was educated in the West, and his fine abilities as a thinker, speaker and writer, were early the subject of remark.
		Our sketch of this most important battle shows General Thomas and his staff anxiously looking for re-enforcements as his gallant troops from their temporary breastwork of loggs and knapsacks, are repulsing the retreated assaults of the overpowering Confederate forces and saving the whole Army of the Cumberland from destruction.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/lytle.html (1274 words)

	Colorado Springs History
		General William Jackson Palmer was a Pennsylvania born civil war veteran who in his travels with the railroad fell in love with southeastern
		General Palmer bought 10,000 acres for $1.25 per acre during one of his survey trips in what is now Colorado Springs.
		In 1870 General William Jackson Palmer wrote to his wife, "Could one live in constant view of these grand mountains without being elevated by them into a lofty plane of thought and purpose?" Mary Lincoln Mellen, known as Queen, was General Palmer wife for whom he built Glen Eyrie castle for.
	www.coloradospringsinfo.net /history.htm (809 words)

	Pvt. John A. Palmer, U.S. Army
		John Palmer and his 29th Ill. comrades were camped along the Hamburg-Purdy Road, northeast of Shiloh Church when the Federal troops were literally caught napping by the massive Confederate assault that began around 5:00 a.m.
		Palmer then participated in the siege of Corinth, Mississippi (April 29 - May 30, 1862); movement to Jackson, Tennessee (June 5-8, 1862); expeditions to Bolivar and Brownsville, Tennessee (July 27 Aug. 13, 1862); relief of Corinth.
		John A. Palmer died January 11, 1918 in Elizabethtown, Hardin Co. Illinois and is buried in the Peters Creek Cemetery there in Hardin County.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/1117/jn_palm.html (1620 words)

	BLE #256 - Joint Line History
		On its west end "General" Palmer felt the railroad should be built along the Arkansas River to Pueblo, but his superiors instead built the railroad to Denver.
		Palmer incorporated his Denver & Rio Grande with plans to build a railroad from Denver to El Paso (and on to Mexico City, fully 125 years before NAFTA).
		USRA decided there should be one track for northward trains, one track for southward trains, and hence ordered the realignment of tracks at the overhead passes at Fountain, Spruce and Sedalia, creating one track for northward trains, one for southward trains (directional operations).
	www.ble256.org /JointLine.html (525 words)

	Charles Day Palmer, General, United States Army
		Charles Day Palmer, 97, a retired Army four-star general who was a heavily decorated combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War, died of cardiac arrest June 7, 1999 at his home in Knollwood, the Army retirement home, in the District.
		In 1942, General Palmer joined the Armored Force in the United States, then in 1944 went to Europe as chief of staff of the elite 2nd Armored ("Hell on Wheels") Division.
		General Palmer, who was born in Chicago, graduated from Western High School in Washington.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /cdpalmer.htm (1042 words)

	Georgetown, Colorado-Home of the Georgetown Loop Railroad
		General Palmer had been a director of the Kansas Pacific line which had reached Denver in 1870.
		In that same year he began organizing the Denver and Rio Grande, and because the DandRG was to run through the mountains at Raton, General Palmer set the track gauge at a three foot width instead of the growing American standard of four feet, eight and one-half inches.
		This "narrow gauge" decision by Palmer was to have a tremendous effect upon transportation into and through the Front Range of the Rockies.
	www.georgetowncolorado.com /bigmen.htm (932 words)

	The James White Conspiracy
		The Kansas Pacific’s chief surveyor and builder was General William Palmer, the perfect man for launching an attack on the reputation of Joseph Ives, and through him, Jefferson Davis.
		Palmer would love to associate the very name of Ives with cartographic incompetence, for the chief surveyor for the northern railroad route was named Butler Ives.
		And Palmer probably knew that this summer the Union Pacific, eager to promote the lands it was opening up, had begun sponsoring an upstart explorer, who even planned the first expedition down the Colorado.
	www.gcrg.org /bqr/14-2/white.html (1666 words)

	The Colorado College - Palmer Hall
		By 1922, Palmer Hall became the center of student protest pranks such as the famed overnight raid on the museum which resulted in stuffed animals being distributed all over campus.
		In March 1929, the college unveiled a large bronze bas relief on the first-floor stairway of Palmer Hall commemorating the late General William J. Palmer.
		Three more presidents, Charles C. Mierow, Thurston J. Davies, and William H. Gill, left their individual marks on the college – not the least of which was the hiring of the next generation of great science faculty.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /Giving/Palmer/page_6g.cfm (232 words)

	Nomad Car of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad
		General Palmer (a veteran of the U.S. Civil War) founded the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (D.and R.G.) in 1870.
		General Palmer retained the exclusive use of the Nomad during its first years.
		Palmer sold out to financier Jay Gould after a Rio Grande board meeting on June 22, 1883 accused the General of spending too much on unprofitable mountain railroad lines (click to see a map of the routes).
	swcenter.fortlewis.edu /inventory/RGSNomad.htm (2505 words)

	A Few Bits of Information on the "Nomad"
		The Nomad has been described as "General William Jackson Palmer's personal private car." There is every reason to believe and no cause to doubt that the railroad's founder-president rode the car, and often.
		But General Palmer was not ostentatious and reflections of his character made it appear unlikely that he ever condoned a luxury car for himself.
		William M. White, who were adequately girded financially and imbued culturally for possession of a private railroad car.
	www.faradic.net /~gsraven/telegraph_tales/drgw/instruments/Nomad/nomad.html (2102 words)

	tri lakes views - Tri-Lakes Views
		General William J. Palmer came west after the Civil War to found the City of Colorado Springs & start the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, a 3-ft. narrow gauge line in 1871.
		Palmer Lake was critical to the railroad because the steam trains chugged up to the summit and had to take on water to head down.
		William Finley Thompson, a dentist originally from Baltimore and practicing in Denver, purchased land & platted the Town of Palmer Lake in 1882, intending it as a health resort & vacation community.
	www.trilakesviews.org /iww_catdetail.taf?ID=3039&Preview=&_UserReference=C0A8C80446B52CA6FCAED210F751427541BF (853 words)

	Laura Gilpin and the Tradition of American Landscape Photography
		Born in 1891 just outside of Colorado Springs, she was distantly related to both William Gilpin, the visionary expansionist and explorer who became Colorado's first territorial governor, and to the photographer William Henry Jackson.
		As a girl, she knew Dr. William A. Bell, who had photographed along the thirty second parallel for the Kansas Pacific Railroad in 1867, and she was a friend of General William Jackson Palmer, the founder of the town and of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
		William Henry Jackson and his eastern-born colleagues had photographed the West as an alien land where great mountains and featureless deserts dwarfed humans to insignificance.
	www.cla.purdue.edu /WAAW/Sandweiss (1345 words)

	Early 1800s
		The canyon is named for William Truman Williams, their guide and a New York City editor.
		Queen's Canyon to the northeast was named in turn by William Williams for General Palmer's newlywed wife, Queenie.
		James Thurlow maintained a studio along Williams Canyon in the late 1870s, documenting and naming many features of the Manitou area, including most of the features in Williams Canyon.
	www.caveofthewinds.com /early1800s.html (254 words)

	History of Queen Palmer Elementary
		Palmer Grade School was built in 1948 at 1921 East Yampa Street in a part of Colorado Springs called Knob Hill.
		It was the first new elementary school to be built in Colorado Springs since Ivywild School, which was built in 1916.
		Queen (her nickname) Palmer was the first school teacher in Colorado Springs.
	www.d11.org /qpalmer/history.html (318 words)

	Paths of Empire
		General Kearny in 1846 marched along the Gila Trail from the copper mines to the Colorado River on his way to San Pasqual and the California revolt.
		Under the supervision of General William Jackson Palmer further surveys of the 35th as well as the more southern 32nd parallels to the coast were made in 1867-68.
		Palmer's most famous railroad work, however, was building the Denver and Rio Grande and fighting for its interests against all comers.
	www.titchenal.com /atsf/ayw1946/paths.html (2961 words)

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